What Holiday/Christmas music are you listening to lately? Favorite Track: Baby it’s cold outside. A classic duet with Zooey from the Elf Soundtrack. (BTW Don’t you want her outfit?) Abby’s Favorite Track: Jingle Bells Favorite Track: Noe! Noe! What is your favorite Christmas Album? What is your favorite Christmas Song? What Child Is This? Written […]
We have a bug going around in my house, so today I wanted a quick and easy art project to do. Abby made a Thanksgiving placement that I laminated for her but it is starting to fall apart. I thought it would be fun to make a holiday one! We colored some holiday pictures, found […]
Have you entered the giveaway from Baby Steals? If not click here. Music is used in my home many times a day to help lift moods, to initiate laughter, to wake up but most of all to calm. Lullabies play an important part in our home life and I honestly can say our lives would be […]
I promised I would post our first project we completed from the book Great American Artsits for Kids by MaryAnn Kohl and Kim Solga so here it is! We chose an artist from the seciont Early American Art named Mary Cassat who loved to paint pictures of mothers with their children. The girls enjoyed listening […]
This was the last art group until the Spring (because I much enjoy art group being OUTSIDE :)) and I plan on inviting a totally new group of kids from the neighborhood. I am also going to set it off by hosting an “Art Show” featuring all the kids artwork in the neighborhood. Already getting […]
I found this articleon The Out-of-Sync Child website about preschoolers and music and movement. They share experiences of how music and movement help children with special needs but I believe the following is true for ALL children. 1) Music and movement allow children to use their imaginations. 2) Music and movement awaken children’s brains. 3) Music […]
We had so much fun playing with these “Boomwhackers” this week. Have you heard of these? They are long colorful tubes that produce various tones. You hit them against anything (not to hard!) to play the tone on the side of the tube. Starting at middle C and extending up to high C; a different […]
Click here for the giveaway. Watercolor painting on coffee filters. The coffee filters are so cheap and the water color paints blend so pretty together. You can rip them up and make a pretty collage out of them or we made them into butterflies with the thousands of pipe cleaners we have in this house! […]
For the giveaway click here. Yes Bread and Butter can be an art form, cooking is the biggest art form in our home. I bought this beautiful cookbook called The River Cottage Family Cookbook and it has quickly become my new favorite cookbook. The pictures are beautiful, recipes are written with love and it explains […]
The giveaway is a few posts down, have you entered yet? I love when I come across such fun things. While visiting one of my favorite blogs Mom Most Traveled I saw one of her posts talking about an Art and Poetry Contest for ages 12 and under. I thought this is my cup of […]
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